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It contains 19 items now, although it may have held more originally : 8 trenchers, 6 spoons and 5 triangular salts, typical items from a table setting of the 1670s. Their minute size would have made them difficult to play with, even for a child, and they may have been intended for a doll's house.<br><br><b>People</b><br>A group of Martha Edlin's (1660-1725) possessions from her childhood, including this box and its contents, were kept in the casket, cherished by her descendants and passed down through the female line in her family for over three hundred years. We know little about her life, except that she married a man called Richard Richmond and appears to have been a prosperous widow, with daughters and grandchildren, living in Pinner in Greater London at the time she drew up her will.","physicalDescription":"Small round silver box with cover, decorated round the sides. 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